Chapter Newborn to Nick of N by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Newsy
(News"y) a. Full of news; abounding in information as to current events. [Colloq.]

Newt
(Newt) n. [OE. ewt, evete, AS. efete, with n prefixed, an ewt being understood as a newt. Cf. Eft.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.

Newtonian
(New*to"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.

Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; — applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's "Principia," to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the mathematical theory of universal gravitation. — Newtonian telescope (Astron.), a reflecting telescope, in which rays from the large speculum are received by a plane mirror placed diagonally in the axis, and near the open end of the tube, and thrown at right angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace. — Newtonian theory of light. See Note under Light.

Newtonian
(New*to"ni*an), n. A follower of Newton.

New-year
(New"-year`) a. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New- year gifts or odes.

New Year's Day
(New" Year's` Day") the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

New Zealand
(New` Zea"land) A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. — New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptospermum scoparium) of New Zealand and Australia, the leaves of which are used as a substitute for tea.

Nexible
(Nex"i*ble) a. [L. nexibilis, from nectere, nexum, to bind.] That may be knit together. [R.]

Next
(Next) a., superl. of Nigh. [AS. nehst, niéhst, nyhst, superl. of neáh nigh. See Nigh.]

1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer.

Her princely guest
Was next her side; in order sat the rest.

Dryden.

Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way.

Bunyan.

2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.

3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.

None could tell whose turn should be the next.

Gay.

4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant.

The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

Ruth ii. 20.

Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition.

Next friend (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.